Then why doesn’t “voltage” bug you? It’s the same sort of word: unit + “age”.

To fully satisfy you, it should be:

electrical potential difference = current * resistance.

That was the joke. They are making everything in the equation end in -age. Because “amperage” bugs them.

Volt + age
Amper(e) + age
Ohm + age

Good catch. I fixed it.

Also, by your coöperative pronunciation example, people would be mispronouncing reëlect.

I’m not sure what you mean.

It’s pronounced co-operative and re-elect. Coöp needs it to not sound lime “coop” as in chicken coop. Reëlect needs it to not sound like “reel” as in fishing reel.

I like to use them when words create a unit of thought. Like line-of-sighr, and such. It really helps readability. It prevents people from having to think too hard about certain sentences when it’s ambiguous which words belong to what part of the sentence. Especially when the expression contains function words like “of”.

However, I’m a fan of just making multiple words into compound words, like bumblebee. That doesn’t work well with something like lineofsight, though.

As a side note, I wish we would being back the diaeresis in favor of hyphens in words like co-op. It used to be coöp, and that so much more fun. Or words like reëlect. Even when it’s not abbreviated, the diaeresis makes it more obvious to readers how coöperative is pronounced. Or any other time where two vowels in a row are pronounced separately.

The power required to do it is impressive to say the least.

That’s not how the attack worked. He didn’t drown out the tower. He simply overrode the the studio-to-transmitter link signal. The studios used microwave line-of-sight transmitters to communicate a signal from the studio to the tower. All the attacker had to do was override that signal. That signal was 50W max. You could override it with maybe 200W as long as you were also in line-of-sight of the microwave receiver. Probably less since some microwave trasmitters were as weak as 1W. They don’t need to be strong since they are line-of-sight directional transmitters. So, that’s not particularly impressive.

https://goldensun.fandom.com/wiki/4-Koma_Gag_Battle

I get the same screen anytime I use any VPN server.

When google started to index paywalled things…

Google has (had?) a rule. If a site lets them index their paywalled content, then the site must deliver the full content if the referrer is google.com or else they will de-index the site. So when clicking a link on google, the full article should appear. It was an old trick to just google the article title to find a link and click through to read a paywalled article.

Is that policy gone now?

People should use the nightly builds since the stable builds are like two years old. They can be installed with Obtanium.

Brits who say “Microsoft are doing a thing” are poking knitting needles into my ears every time!

It’s not plural. Microsoft is a company. A. One!

It doesn’t matter that it’s a company of individuals. Next your going to tell me my person is plural because I’m made from many cells. “CrayonRosary are mistaken about language!” No!

Bonus: Math is singular, too, because mathematics is singular. It’s not the plural of mathematic!

I’m just playin’.

What’s a tree?